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We Came to Dance

The Gaslight Anthem is boring. If you asked me in 2010 to recommend a band, I would have very enthusiastically directed you towards The Gaslight Anthem. Sink or Swim, Senor and the Queen and The '59 Sound were damn near perfect. They had energy, heart and were catchy as hell. American Slang was a slight departure with an overall slower tempo than I had grown accustomed to however it was still a very strong effort. Since then, each subsequent album has grown slower and more subdued. About 3/4 of each of their last 2 albums seem to be dedicated solely to slow dances or meticulously inspecting your shoes. To me it doesn't even feel like the same band. What was The Gaslight Anthem now feels like the Brian Fallon vanity project; it feels like one mans vision masquerading as a band. What's left of a once majestic beast is the bland shell of a band that had so much potential. The energy is all but gone, majority of the songs feel forced..it's time for a name change.  


My bag this week was Kettle Brand Krinkle Cut Sweet Chili Garlic  potato chips. When I opened the bag and took a sniff it smelled like almost any Kettle Brand bag of potato chips; potatoes and oil. I surveyed the bag for what appeared to be the most flavourful chip and plucked it out. The chip looked like your standard crinkle cut with visible flecks of flavour covering the chip relatively evenly. I threw it in my mouth, shut my lips and proceeded to masticate. Now that I've started paying more attention to which brand I'm consuming it's becoming more and more evident that many Kettle Brand chip flavours have the same initial flavour; greasy potato. The stated flavour of this bag doesn't really kick in until you're about 3/4 of the way to swallowing. When that does finally happen you get a slightly sweet garlic flavour followed by a minor kick of heat. Both the sweet garlic and heat are very subtle. It is with the after taste that you really notice the garlic. The benefit to Krinkle Cut chips is that they're kettle cooked, this seems to give your standard crinkle cut chip more strength and in turn slightly more crunch. If you like kettle cooked chips and subtle flavours give em a try, they might be your jam. I probably won't get another bag, but if I did purchase another bag of Krinkle Cut Sweet Chili Garlic chips they will definitely be accompanied with a dip.

Stay hydrated,
Marc

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  1. agree about The Gaslight Anthem. I tried the Sriracha Kettle brand chips a couple weeks ago, not bad at all.

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